"I am bereft - very sad - we don't have an allotment, " said Karen Ongley-Snook, founder of Bosham Allotment Group.

BBC: Allotment wait for thousands across southern England

If sports enthusiasts don't have reliable clairvoyance when it comes to athletic success, why should we expect lawyers mostly bereft of any business experience to divine the future of commerce?

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